Dear friends: who really needs an MM type phono cartridge?, well I will try to share/explain with you what are my experiences about and I hope too that many of you could enrich the topic/subject with your own experiences. For some years ( in this forum ) and time to time I posted that the […]
Month: May 2020
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From our archives Twenty years ago, Sony launched a format that promised CD clarity and cassette convenience – but the world just wasn’t interested. Why not? Please click HERE to continue reading
Paul McGowan ….. Words, tastes, sights, sounds are specific recipes that activate neuro transmitters in our brains that bring meaning to each. I know it’s the engineer in me that brings this to your attention, but how things work fascinates me. When you taste something it is a specific formulation of the 5 primary tastes […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/02/a-life-in-music-robert-plant-on-led-zeppelin-alison-krauss-and-his-endless-wanderlust
The Audiophiliac interviews mastering engineer Dave McNair about who should get most of the credit for great sounding recordings, and his answer may surprise you. Please click HERE to continue
First, a cautionary note if I may. The plain fact is that the majority of adults listening seriously to music in the home (but not necessarily listening to serious music) is a male occupation. Moreover most men who engage in this generally harmless activity do so alone. The reasons for this are beyond the scope […]
The ultimate method of driving a turntable is…………………………..with a 6 cylinder Mercedes engine! Please click HERE to continue reading.
The Sigma MONO is the reference design for the proprietary Classé amplifier platform introduced in the Delta series CA-D200 and Sigma AMP2 and AMP5 models. With completely separate chassis for each channel, the monaural amplifier architecture eliminates the possibility of crosstalk between channels and allows speaker cable lengths to be held to a minimum to […]
From 2014 but still worth reading. Steve Guttenberg says: Audio-Technica’s AT LP60 turntable typically sells for under $100, but it’s a great way to discover the joys of analog sound. More HERE
Paul McGowan writes: In a recent post we learned that the size of a switching power supply is so much smaller than a conventional linear supply because the power transformer shrunk an order of several magnitudes – and it did this because we’ve managed to chop up the incoming AC into little tiny on/off bits […]
Paul McGowan writes ….. Number 7 in our list of design challenges for a DAC or a preamplifier output stage is providing a single ended or balanced output. As in everything we designers do there are multiple ways to achieve this: some simple others more complex and each with different audible results. First let’s remember […]
Later… with Jools Holland returns for the second episode in a special and very different series, filmed at Jools’s creative home, his studio in south London. This week, Jools chats to grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal, who is working on his forthcoming seventh album. The east London rapper joins Jools virtually from his studio to talk […]
The thread starts: I’ve noticed on this forum a segment that demands blind testing as a means of verifying reports of audibility with “scientific” evidence. The reason for demands of blind tests is to rule out the false positives that sighted listening is known to be prone to. It has long been recognised that blind […]
Like many other epiphanies, Dave Davies’ occurred on the road. He was relaxing in his suite at the Sheraton Hotel, Richmond, Virginia, in 1982, when five mystical “intelligences” began to communicate with him through smell. “Each separate intelligence had its own aroma,” he recalls. “One was similar to jasmine, but very deep.” The intelligences explained […]
The thread starts: I earned a living in journalism all my working life.I like and support audio mags, I try to understand the pressures they are under.No sensible person can assume that personal opinions will not colour a review.In the end these things are a matter of opinion, not rock-solid fact. Given all that,I […]
“It’s always been a very big part of me, especially when I was a little girl,” she confirms. “I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things, I had a wonderful world around my toys, and invented people. I don’t mean I had imaginary friends, […]
In 1962, when tennis rackets were made of wood, newspeople were known for challenging the government, and the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks was in its second year (the show closed in 2002), Nippon Columbia’s Denki Onkyo (or Den-On) division introduced to the professional audio world a brand-new moving-coil phono cartridge. Developed in cooperation with the Japan Broadcasting […]
Paul McGowan ….. I have been listening to a lot of vinyl as of late – we’re getting ready to launch a new phono preamp – and the evaluation process if ongoing. Unfortunately I do not have the big reference system setup yet so I am relegated to sound room number 2, which isn’t as […]
Does anyone know the advantage of using 4 mono blocks to run speakers over the convential two mono blocks,or would it be better to run them in bi amp form as the amps can be run as stereo amps? I tried all the configurations and to be honest cant really tell any difference just looks […]
They say: “When I did my first recording as an artist I knew I was going to be doing this a lot and for a very long time,” remembers Fred Endresen – a recording/mix engineer, and owner of Studio Nord in Mosjøen. Please click HERE for the full story
Hello Folks, Since re-veneering my Rega Ela’s a few weeks ago i started to use my Hi-Fi and listen to music a bit more. getting the use of a proper Hi-Fi system after months of low grade car audio and a small kitchen transistor radio was obviously a great aural feeling. i do also […]
I recently watched a fantastic documentary, ‘Last Shop Standing: the rise, fall and rebirth of the independent record shop’ and found it very inspiring. Here is the trailer: It’s fantastic. Get a copy. It made me wonder whether the recent revival of independent record shops have a few things to teach us more generally about […]
Lauren Dragan writes: Last week we talked about The Distortion of Sound, the new documentary concerning the gradual decline in audio quality that plagues the music current music industry. If you haven’t watched it yet (it’s free, incidentally) you really owe it to yourself to take the half an hour, and to share with a […]
